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Joseph Inslee Anderson (
November 5,
1757–
April 17,
1837) was a
U.S. political figure who served as a
United States Senator from
Tennessee and later as the first
Comptroller of the
United States Treasury.
Anderson was born near
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the
American Revolutionary War he was an officer in the
New Jersey Line of the
Continental Army, serving as regimental paymaster for much of the war.
After the war he was admitted to the
Delaware bar. He was appointed United States
judge of the
Southwest Territory in
1791. In
1796 he served as a delegate to the convention that drafted the first Tennessee
state constitution. In
1797 he was elected by the
Tennessee General Assembly to fill the vacancy in the Senate created by that body's expulsion of the seat's original occupant,
William Blount. That term was scheduled to expire on
March 3,
1799; however, on
December 12,
1798 the Tennessee General Assembly elected Anderson to the state's other Senate seat, the term for which was to expire on
March 3,
1803.
Anderson was to serve in this seat continuously until his retirement from the Senate effective March 3,
1815. He was reelected by the General Assembly in 1803 and
1809. In the
Eighth Congress (1803–
1804), he served as
President pro tempore of the United States Senate. After retiring from the Senate, he remained in
Washington, D.C. and he was appointed Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury and served in that office from 1815 until
1836, dying the next year. He was interred in the
Congressional Cemetery in the
Anacostia section of Washington.
Anderson County, Tennessee is named in honor of Joseph Anderson. His son
Alexander Outlaw Anderson later served as a Senator from Tennessee.
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